The Power to Win on Reproductive Rights
The Power to Win on Reproductive Rights
February 9, 2010, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Timezone: US/Pacific
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The Power to Win on Reproductive Rights: Rethinking Racial Justice and Movement Building as Key Ingredients
Teleconference and Webinar
Is a more inclusive and unified multi-racial movement the key to unlocking the power to win on abortion and other key reproductive health issues? As funders examine new and innovative strategies for building a broad base of support for reproductive rights in a rapidly shifting U.S. demographic, what can be learned from Women of Color-led groups and multi-racial efforts that are succeeding in moving the policy needle? As these efforts engage a wide spectrum of women, many of whom have not been a part of traditional pro-choice work in the past, and gain the support of new sectors, such as labor and environment, that have historically refused to take a stand on reproductive issues, what are the implications for funding strategies?
Speaker: Vanessa Daniel, Philanthropic Advisor, Tides Foundation:
Vanessa has 15 years of experience working in the social justice movement as a union and community organizer, researcher and freelance journalist. She joined Tides in 2005 where she currently leads the Reproductive Justice Initiative. As a union organizer with Service Employees International Union Local 715, she built the leadership of homecare and other healthcare workers to successfully fight layoffs, increase wages and improve health benefits and working conditions. As a community organizer she worked with S.I.R.E.N. (Service, Immigrant Rights, & Education Network) on welfare rights in immigrant communities and with EBASE (East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy), on the campaign that passed a landmark living wage law at the Port of Oakland. Her research at the Applied Research Center supported the grassroots organizing work of welfare mothers involved in GROWL, a national network of community-based welfare rights organizations. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights, and as co-chair of the Women of Color Working Group. Vanessa has a B.A. in American Ethnic Studies from Smith College.
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